Capturing, Storing and Analysing Data Provenance

Provenance (also known as pedigree or lineage) refers to the complete history of a document. In the scientific community, provenance refers to the information that describes data in sufficient detail to facilitate reproduction and enable validation of results. In the archival community, provenance refers to the chain of ownership and the transformations a document has undergone. However, in most computer systems today, provenance is an after-thought, implemented as an auxiliary indexing structure parallel to the actual data.

mercecrosasWorld Data System is looking for an Executive Director to lead the WDS-IPO hosted by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) in Tokyo, Japan: t.co/GKmOTmtHXH@ICSU_WDS

frod_sanImagine having to negotiate access every time you want to get distribution data from GBIF, climate data from Worldclim, or sequence data from Genbank...
One day closed-access databases will open up, or will be replaced by open counterparts
#openscience